Hardware
Hardware is how the data gets in
We design Field Agents and sensor nodes because some of what our customers need to measure has nowhere else to come from. Powoflow is still the product. Every device here exists to put a reading into the asset graph.
What we build
Three device families, each solving a problem we could not solve by buying something.
Mesa
Runs the Field Agent software: protocol adapters, a local time-series historian, vision models running on the device and remote update. Current production hardware is ARM based with an on-board AI accelerator. Earlier Field Agents were built on NVIDIA modules and stay supported in the field until sites migrate.
- •ARM based, with an on-board AI accelerator
- •Isolated digital in and out for plant wiring
- •RS-485, CAN, Power over Ethernet, cellular
- •Managed component deployment and rollback
Neva
An outdoor sensor node for digging, blasting and pile driving, powered over the same Ethernet cable that carries its data. It streams continuous tri-axial vibration to a Field Agent beside it, which does the signal processing on site and keeps the raw waveform locally. Only the summary goes to the cloud, so a month of continuous measurement does not become a month of bandwidth.
- •Tri-axial vibration, continuously sampled
- •Peak particle velocity, dominant frequency, onset detection
- •Wired Ethernet with Power over Ethernet
- •Raw waveform kept on site, summaries to the cloud
KA1
A battery-powered asset tracker for things that move and things with no power at all. Low-power cellular, multi-constellation GNSS woken by movement rather than run continuously, environmental sensing and battery telemetry. Its companion unit bridges Bluetooth equipment such as solar charge controllers and battery management systems.
- •Low-power cellular: LTE-M and NB-IoT
- •Multi-constellation GNSS, woken by movement
- •Its own certificate, held where firmware cannot read it
- •Cohort firmware updates, hash-verified before write
Protocols on the wire
Each of these has a deployed edge component behind it. If a protocol is not on this list, we do not speak it, ask, and we will tell you straight.
Devices we support
Third-party hardware Powoflow reads. We did not build these and we do not resell them as our own. They are listed because they are known to work.
| Device | Link | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Asset tag | Long-range wireless | Card-sized. Position from satellite, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, motion detection, an SOS button and geofencing |
| Rugged tracker | Long-range wireless | Sealed for outdoor and industrial use. Positioning, three-axis motion for shock and movement events, and a tamper alarm |
| Temperature and humidity | Long-range wireless | Ambient conditions for frost warning, condensation risk and general microclimate. Reports a derived wet-bulb temperature |
| Light level | Long-range wireless | Illuminance to 160,000 lux, for daylight and shade mapping |
| CO₂, temperature and humidity | Long-range wireless | Air quality in enclosed spaces: greenhouse enrichment, barn ventilation, stored-product atmosphere |
| Soil moisture and temperature | Long-range wireless | Root-zone water content for irrigation scheduling and over-watering detection |
| Soil moisture, temperature and salinity | Long-range wireless | Adds electrical conductivity, so fertiliser concentration and salt build-up are visible |
| Industrial probe temperature | Long-range wireless | Up to three external probes, −50 to +300 °C. Cold chain, cold storage, process and multi-depth soil |
| Weather stations | Long-range wireless | Nine configurations from wind-only up to a ten-in-one with solar radiation, rainfall, noise, particulates and CO₂ |
| IP cameras | Standards-based video | Discovery, pan-tilt-zoom control and event subscription against any conforming camera |
| Solar charge controllers | Bluetooth | Array and battery telemetry from off-grid power systems |
| Battery management systems | Bluetooth | Cell health, state of charge and protection events |
| Satellite terminals | Link telemetry | Availability, obstruction, usage and link quality |
Tell us what you need to measure
If it speaks one of the protocols above, it can be on the graph this week. If it does not, that is a conversation worth having before you buy anything.